Method Detail

connect

Attempts to make a database connection to the given URL.
The driver should return "null" if it realizes it is the wrong kind
of driver to connect to the given URL. This will be common, as when
the JDBC driver manager is asked to connect to a given URL it passes
the URL to each loaded driver in turn.

The driver should throw an SQLException if it is the right
driver to connect to the given URL but has trouble connecting to
the database.

The Properties argument can be used to pass
arbitrary string tag/value pairs as connection arguments.
Normally at least "user" and "password" properties should be
included in the Properties object.

Note: If a property is specified as part of the url and
is also specified in the Properties object, it is
implementation-defined as to which value will take precedence. For
maximum portability, an application should only specify a property once.

Parameters:

url - the URL of the database to which to connect

info - a list of arbitrary string tag/value pairs as
connection arguments. Normally at least a "user" and
"password" property should be included.

acceptsURL

Retrieves whether the driver thinks that it can open a connection
to the given URL. Typically drivers will return true if they
understand the sub-protocol specified in the URL and false if
they do not.

getPropertyInfo

The getPropertyInfo method is intended to allow a generic
GUI tool to discover what properties it should prompt
a human for in order to get
enough information to connect to a database. Note that depending on
the values the human has supplied so far, additional values may become
necessary, so it may be necessary to iterate though several calls
to the getPropertyInfo method.

Parameters:

url - the URL of the database to which to connect

info - a proposed list of tag/value pairs that will be sent on
connect open

Returns:

an array of DriverPropertyInfo objects describing
possible properties. This array may be an empty array if
no properties are required.

getMajorVersion

Retrieves the driver's major version number. Initially this should be 1.

Returns:

this driver's major version number

getMinorVersion

int getMinorVersion()

Gets the driver's minor version number. Initially this should be 0.

Returns:

this driver's minor version number

jdbcCompliant

boolean jdbcCompliant()

Reports whether this driver is a genuine JDBC
Compliant™ driver.
A driver may only report true here if it passes the JDBC
compliance tests; otherwise it is required to return false.

JDBC compliance requires full support for the JDBC API and full support
for SQL 92 Entry Level. It is expected that JDBC compliant drivers will
be available for all the major commercial databases.

This method is not intended to encourage the development of non-JDBC
compliant drivers, but is a recognition of the fact that some vendors
are interested in using the JDBC API and framework for lightweight
databases that do not support full database functionality, or for
special databases such as document information retrieval where a SQL
implementation may not be feasible.

Returns:

true if this driver is JDBC Compliant; false
otherwise

getParentLogger

Return the parent Logger of all the Loggers used by this driver. This
should be the Logger farthest from the root Logger that is
still an ancestor of all of the Loggers used by this driver. Configuring
this Logger will affect all of the log messages generated by the driver.
In the worst case, this may be the root Logger.